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| | News: Somalia, Somali presidential candidates make themselves known at talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | One such aspirant, Abdullah Ahmed Addow, 64, from the Hawiye clan, is a former finance minister and was ambassador to the United States in the early 1960s. |
 | | The chairman of the conference, Hassan Abshir Farah, 55, former mayor of Mogadishu and former interior minister in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, whose name is often mentioned as a possible candidate, told AFP that it was too soon to show his cards. |
 | | Siad Barre belonged to the Darod clan, and there is a widespread feeling in Arta that the next president should come from the same clan or from the Hawiye, which is dominant in central Somalia and in Mogadishu. |
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